I'm too involved with making plans for my soul

Confession: One of my favorite pastimes is to do a google image search of random abstract concepts just to see what kind of pictures show up. I'll go and type in something like "beauty" or "reality" or "love" etc. Depending on what the word actually is (*hm* "actually" I need to try that one...) you could end up with images that you totally did not intend to run across. Then again, you'd be surprised.

I tend to type the words "worship" or "home" or "laughter" and stuff like that. I love when people's random candid shots show up...of their kids laughing at their dog or their parents walking on the beach... perfectly exemplary of the fact that there is something bigger than us in the world. If there weren't...existence would be pointless. And I, for one, am not a huge fan of pointless...

If I find in myself desires that nothing in this world can satisfy, I can only conclude that I was made for another world. -C.S. "Jack" Lewis

I've been listening to this album I bought on iTunes...it's called "Until We are Ghosts" by William Fitzsimmons. I think it's one of his older ones--maybe 2006?--but this guy does some serious thinking when he writes these lyrics. Clearly, he's struggling with some concept of salvation of sorts. Even though he never really verbalizes it in "christian" or specifically "religious" terminology (aside from the stating of the phrase "passion play"), his mind is moving around. It's fascinating to watch/listen. And because there's so much substance to it, it's great music...in theory as well as in practice. :)

I finished The Great Divorce for the millionth time today. There's just no way to be as articulate as C. S . Lewis. The man never ceases to amaze me. And yet, in all of his wisdom and creativity, he never once makes me feel inadequate. He continues to communicate in the simplest ways...and that is exemplary of an annointed communicator. You know that you have been given the gift of communicating truth if you can do it in a way that makes people completely forget about you as the communicator because they can't look away from the Truth you just told them. I think that pretty much sums up what I wanna be when I grow up. *lol*

Not vague at all, right?

I was wired up tonight. I knew I needed to write something that didn't involve a theological debate of any kind because I'll just never sleep if I do. And then I'd just be completely useless tomorrow...and who's got time to be useless?

Not. I.

So, forgive me for theoretically twiddling my thumbs on a blog tonight... you'd understand if you had just heard me yammer on for 45 minutes after class tonight. But I've never been the type to leave a movie theater and immediately be able to jump back into what they call "reality." So...of COURSE I can't do it after a theology class.

I mean, *duh*

Happy Tuesday.